After a quarter of a century with Lindsay Park, Tom Dabernig is adapting to new training techniques on the beach at Warrnambool.

Tom Dabernig does not expect to be a big player during the spring but hopes to have a runner in the first Group 1 race of the 2021-22 season.

Fifty Stars will be the flag-bearer of his small stable at Warrnambool awaiting completion of his on-course complex.

Graciously, Matthew Williams has given Dabernig 11 boxes at his property which Dabernig said had already been oversubscribed.

“Matty Williams has got these stables on his house block and then his main stables are across the road,” Dabernig said.

“We’ve got our own self-contained area which is working well. The downside is there are only 11 stables and I’ve got a few too many horses, and not enough stables.

“It’s a good facility and I’m confident that I can get it too work.

“I can foresee already, being here just over two weeks it will be good for the horses and we’re here in July and possibly seeing it at its worst.

“In spring, summer and autumn, it will probably be beautiful.”

Having been associated with Lindsay Park for over 25 years, Dabernig is undertaking a new way of training and is sponging off the local trainers.

“You’ve got to watch the weather forecast and see that the conditions are right, so we’re slowly doing it two at a time and we’re not taking a trackload down or anything,” Dabernig said.

“I’ve been watching carefully how the other trainers do it and will try and copy what they do.”

Dabernig will have his first runner Bellx on the Ballarat Synthetic on Tuesday after last Thursday’s meeting at Bendigo was washed out.

But he’s looking forward to seeing what Fifty Stars can do having returned to Warrnambool after being prepared by Darren Weir previously.

Dabernig is looking to start Fifty Stars in the Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on August 28 and then the Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on September 11.

“He’s a beautiful natured colt. For a seven-year-old he’s easy to handle,” Dabernig said.

Article from JustHorseRacing.com.au